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JeffSurdej

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  • Preferred boat
    Nautique
  • Home Ski Site
    Waters Edge
  • Real Name
    Jeff surdej
  • Ski
    Goode
  • State
    IL
  • Tournament PB
    4.5@39
  • USAWS Member # or other IWWF Federation #
    600-00-6433

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  1. After slalom and trick prelims 🇺🇸 5516, 🇫🇷 5354🇨🇦 5280, 🇬🇧 4860.
  2. @Cooper_Trelawney no placement stuff needed. Just put in scores into the formula for how they score team stuff and I used scores as if everyone skied what their iwsf ranking score is.
  3. I have ran the test tourney for Worlds based off ranking scores. USA could bring back the Gold! USA-8465.40 Canada-8331.74 France-7956.95 GBR-7729
  4. One of our jumps at Waters Edge doesn't pivot at the waterline and thus when we go from 5 foot to 6, I have to add flotation on the front and 10 gallons of water on the back to get full length/height. A pain in the butt during tournaments. I'm thinking of adding some sort of crank system or airbag system to make it easier to add and lessen weight on either end to accomplish this with less work and not having to swim flotation under the ramp. Has anyone seen some good systems for this out there?
  5. @swbca great observation and something that has always perplexed me. Go look at scorebooks in late 90’s and early 2,000. All events all divisions the scores are so far down from back then especially trick and jump. yet the pros have greatly advanced. I know numbers are way down but you would almost think only the best would still be around. Really makes you wonder.
  6. @Bruce_Butterfield I may have jumped the gun, its not official yet, you are correct. AWSA has 3 voting reps but their votes are worth 30 votes out of the 59.1 total votes.
  7. @The_MS Agreed, was thinking the same thing. A lot of clubs don't know how to use the OLR email function, its easy if you know how to do it but yes to automate this based on who is entered would be a nice feature
  8. @Golfguy pending risk management and board approval at end of Jan meetings, I would suggest contacting your voting reps to assure they are voting to remove this proposal.
  9. @Dirt maybe we’ll figure them out. They already solved the background check. what are ALL the mandates? Are there any others besides Safesport?
  10. Yes it is true that pending board approval in Jan that background checks will not be mandated unless officiating nationals or international level event. For those of you bashing the HELL out of USAWS you need to recognize how hard they fought to NOT make this happen in the first place and continued to fight after it was mandated to find a way to make it work so it didn't effect us negatively. Some of you think they don't care or that they sit back and do nothing or that they actually came up with the idea of SS and background checks for officials. Go sit in their shoes. Go deal with insurance companies who wont insure you without SS, parents mandating something be done, and all the BS. Got news for you, if AWSA breaks away from USAWS or USAWS breaks away from USOPC, were still gonna have to SS at some point I can almost guarantee it. I know it sucks but if its helps make sure our sport is around for decades b/c we are not being negligent and have insurance coverage then go online for 3 freaking hours. Hell you all spend 3 hours a day adjusting your fins settings. Love, ex-president looking for a panda :) Sorry, just tired of the negativity, lets just go ski people!
  11. @markn @jayski I didn't mean to imply that the liability would shift to the individual. I don't think that's the case at all.
  12. @dbressel Yes I would say for sure it would take some responsibility off the organization, that's the whole point, if we were doing nothing to prevent abuse we would be more liable, no different than taking measures to make sure our boats are safe etc.
  13. @jayski it definitely decreases the possibility b/c we as an NGB have to protect our members and do the right thing. If we are taking the action to help prevent incidences we are way less likely to be negligent in a lawsuit. Same reason we have MVR now for drivers and coaching classes, and insurance at events.
  14. I see both sides, I personally am not a fan of mandating this across the board, but I also understand the reasoning as one incident could shut down the organization for good. I would hate to have to make 30 guest members who come out for a ski for fun to learn about the sport go through SS. So maybe the real problem is that skiers can ski at worlds as guest members, but that's an IWWF thing, they mandate that a federation can not force skiers coming to ski worlds buy the membership. I'd be curious how many here at worlds have never competed in a US tourney and thus actually used the guest membership but I get the point, anyone can violate safesport even for 1 day.
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